Here are some useful guidelines for you in order to get your print project done efficiently:

Design
Good communication with your graphic designer is very important in getting what you want. Your designer should work closely with your printer from the start, in order for the project to run smoothly and with the least cost. You can explore and decide on the typefaces, layouts, photos, paper, colors, and other quality demands with the help of your designer.

Selecting a Printer
Get familiar with your local printers by taking tours around their plants and finding out their specialties. Establish an on-going relationship and let your printers know what your expectations are. Most print buyers let their printer manage their job from the start to finish. Many of those stages include using a designer, copywriter, photographer, illustrator, color separator, typesetter, paste-up artist, prepress house, printer, binder, shipper, and mailer.

Scheduling
You will need to determine deadlines after deciding what the piece will be and who is doing what. Effective time-mangerment essential for both you and your vendors since printing projects usually run on tight schedules. Start from your deadline and then figure backwards. More time is needed if you are contracting each task separately.

Getting to Camera Ready
Master copies for every printing job should follow the technical requirements of graphic arts photography. The preparation includes making a mechanical (also called paste-ups or artboards) which is the process of assembling camera-ready elements with adhesives and mounting them on boards to be photographed for printing. Proof your mechanicals carefully to make sure they contain all the correct elements and instructions to the printer.

Color
The critical aspect of dealing with printed color is to make sure everyone "sees" the same color and to understand the limitations of four color process. There are prepress color proofs that simulate color printing and let you check composition, color break, registration, and color separation quality.

The standard way to specify color is to use the Pantone Matching System (PMS). This system contains 1000 Pantone colors and four process colors.

Four color process printing reproduces color photographs or illustrations by using four colors which are cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. Your original art is separated into the four colors, each broken down into little dots. The size of these dots determines the appearance of the final printed colors.

Prepress Proof
A prepress proof is for the client to see how the final image will look which is important in four color printing because it is your last chance to catch any prepress errors. Color keys and bluelines are examples of prepress proofs.

Press Check
Press checks should be conducted right before the real printing production starts. Making any changes after this stage can cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars.

Going to the Press
Your job is ready to print once you have approved the proofs for your job. If a press check is required, you will be at your printers when the first sheet comes off the press.

Finishing and Binding
The final steps of finishing and binding are just as important as the stages before. Binding includes scoring, folding, collating, stitching, and trimming. Finishing involves die-cutting, varnishing, mounting, laminating, embossing, and punching.

Using these various techniques, OUTPUT can produce anything from cards to brochures, booklets to manuals, perforated forms to multi-part invoices.

Whatever your business printing needs, OUTPUT can meet the challenge and help you improve or upgrade the image you present to your clients and business associates through the printed materials which represent your company.

OUTPUT is a high quality, one stop service for your professional printing needs. Highly experienced as coordinators, our staff can assist you with your most complex projects from start to finish. Our quality service and competitive prices have one main objective: your 100% satisfaction.

MBE Certification
OUTPUT is a certified Minority Business Enterprise. For companies that have pledged to assign a portion of their yearly contracts and bids to Women & Minority Business Enterprises, this makes OUTPUT an easy choice.

Client references are available at your request. To maintain confidentiality, we will always get permission before using any client as reference.

We are always here to help
Never hesitate to call us for information about the ins and outs of printing. Even if you're not doing business with us right now, we want you to consider us as a business resource thatıs as close as your telephone or fax machine.

Environmental Awareness
At OUTPUT we care about the environment. All of our waste paper is recycled on a regular basis. Recycled paper stocks are available in ever growing variety for the production of your order.

Community Awareness
Our company participates in a youth training program every year which brings young trainees into our facility to work on perfecting their trade. Apprentices from the local area work along side our experienced staff to learn valuable trade and business skills for the future.